In this episode of the Industrial Devolution podcast, Dr. Tobias Wilson-Bates, associate professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, interviews Nathan K. Hensley, associate professor of English at Georgetown University and author of the recently published Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Dr. Wilson-Bates and Dr. Hensley discuss points raised by Action without Hope, a study of “how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action,” and tackle the question, “What is the point of studying novels amidst our moment of general collapse?”
In this podcast episode, Dr. Tobias Wilson-Bates, assistant professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College, interviews Dr. Rebecca Struthers, author of the recently published Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History (HarperCollins, 2023) and the first watchmaker in British history to earn a Ph.D. in horology (the study and measurement of time).
We are sharing this 'Time in the Novel' interview to coincide with the release of the winter 2023 issue of Studies in the Novel, a special number titled "Strange Temporalities: Gender, Time, and the Novel."
In spring 2019, Studies in the Novel released a special issue commemorating the journal's first 50 years. This retrospective issue includes seminal articles from the journal's first five decades, with each reprinted article featuring a new introduction commissioned to put the original work in context.
In this podcast, editor Nora Gilbert speaks with Brian Shea of Johns Hopkins University Press about how the issue came together and what the future holds for Studies in the Novel.
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